If you’ve got the winter blues or are just looking for a new hobby to get started with, go buy Malabrigo yarn in skeins of different colors and let your creative forces free. You can get some how-to books to learn how to knit all kinds of garments and clothes, or even enroll in a beginning knitting class (that’s how I got started years ago). After you buy your Malabrigo yarn and start learning how to knit with it, you’ll become a knit-wit like me (!) and have yourself the start of a creative and socially satisfying hobby. Heck, you may even be able to start a small business with your knitting craft and start earning a little money on the side as you sell your knitting creations. But it can all start simply and easily when you buy some Malabrigo yarn (or other yarn types or brands) and a few knitting needles.


The chilly and wet months of winter are a great time to hunker down and get started with a new indoor activity if there’s not a lot of outdoor activities you want to be doing outside in rain or snow. But imagine snuggling up by the fire or coal stove (or radiator!) with some brightly colored fleece soft Malabrigo merino yarn that you buy from online yarn shops and other yarn supplier and knitting supplies websites, and make a simple throw blanket. It can be an excellent way to get rid of mid-winter boredom, doldrums, and cabin fever. The art of knitting has been practiced by people around the world for hundreds of years. And people get involved with it as much for the artistic satisfaction as for the practical and useful results.

If this artistic hobby appeals to you, consider signing up for a beginning knitting class. You buy Malabrigo yarn and take it with you to class with your other knitting supplies. You can also crochet if you want. But you take your knitting needles and a free knitting pattern (or one or more that you bought) and you go to town. You can start simply, with a potholder or two, until you’ve perfected the basic stitches. There are two basic stitches in knitting, the garter stitch and the stockinette stitch. From there you move on to other more advanced stitches like the cable stitch. Anyway, with your super soft Malabrigo merino yarn that comes from Merino sheep bred by ranchers in northern Uruguay, handspun and naturally dyed in vibrant colors, you can move right on to a baby blanket. It’s such a rewarding hobby, it’s small wonder that you’ll find a yarn shop right in your home town that offers knitting clubs and classes. Start with a beginning knitting class. Other beginner knitters will join you and an instruction who knows her stuff!

Knitting is not difficult to learn especially if you have the right instructions and/or the right instructor along with different Malabrigo yarns like Malabrigo sock yarn, merino yarn, lace weight yarn or worsted yarn, or even Malabrigo silky merino yarn, all to make different kinds of things (the right yarn for the job at hand). Your instructor is able to give one on one instruction and tips and techniques on attaining an even gauge in your stitches, a most important step to learn before moving on to a big blanket project. In a beginning knitting class, the instructor will cover all the basics that will allow you to proceed to the next level of difficulty with ease. It can be the start of a thoroughly relaxing, therapeutic, and soothing hobby that calms your mind and spirit and that you can enjoy for the rest of your life. It can be yours when you just take that first step today and buy Malabrigo yarn.